Electronic Books

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Cosmic Explosions

The proceedings of the conference Supernovae 2003 (IAU colloquium 192) provides an extensive state-of-the-art survey of all ...

Dark Matter in Astro- and Particle Physics

The search for dark matter in the universe has established itself as one of the most exciting and central fields of astrophysics, ...

Exploring the Cosmic Frontier

On May 18-21, 2004, the Max-Planck-Society’s Harnack-Haus in Dahlem, Berlin hosted the international symposium "Exploring ...

Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology

This textbook introduces the astronomy of galaxies, their structure, their active galactic nuclei, their evolution and their ...

First Light in the Universe : Saas-Fee Advanced Course 36. Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy

The exploration of the first billion years of the history of the Universe, from the so-called Dark Ages to cosmic reionisation, ...

Galaxy Formation

This second edition of Galaxy Formation is an up-to-date text on astrophysical cosmology, expounding the structure of the ...

Galaxy Formation and Evolution

An Astronomical Life – Observing the Depths of the Universe” Though science as a subject can be di?cult, what has been ...

General Relativity

this book is a short and concise exposition of the central ideas of general relativity. Although the original audience was ...

Gravity, Black Holes, and the Very Early Universe : An Introduction to General Relativity and Cosmology

In the early 1900s, Albert Einstein formulated two theories that would forever change the landscape of physics: the Special ...

Groups of Galaxies in the Nearby Universe

In the cosmological context, groups trace large-scale structures better than clusters, and the evolution of groups and clusters ...

Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics IV

This volume documents the contributions presented at the Seventh Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society (Sociedad ...

How does the Galaxy Work?

"This volume presents a multi-disciplinary approach to the physical mechanisms which structure the shape, evolution and ...

Island Universes : Structure and Evolution of Disk Galaxies

This book contains an up-to-date review of the structure and evolution of disk galaxies from both the observational and theoretical ...

Mapping the Galaxy and Nearby Galaxies

This is a proceedings book of the symposium "Mapping the Galaxy and Nearby Galaxies" held on Ishigaki Island, Okinawa, ...

Optics in Astrophysics

The book addresses most of the most critical interdisciplinary domains where they interact, or where they will do. A first ...

Science Perspectives for 3D Spectroscopy ; Proceedings of the ESO Workshop held in Garching, Germany, 10-14 October 2005

This volume contains the proceedings of possibly the last conference ever on integral-field spectroscopy. The contributors ...

Science with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array : A New Era for Astrophysics

This book describes the enormous capabilities of ALMA, the state of the project, and most notably the scientific prospects ...

Sirius Matters

Since very early times Sirius was a point of attraction in the night sky. It served to synchronize calendars in antiquity ...

Starbursts

Starbursts are important features of early galaxy evolution. Many of the distant, high-redshift galaxies we are able to detect ...

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